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CHANDIGARH: Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab today declared Manpreet Singh Ayali as party candidate from Ludhiana Lok Sabha constituency. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal made the announced today. The party had earlier announced six candidates, including sitting MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, wife of Sukhbir, from Bhatinda. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa will be the party's candidate from Sangrur. The other candidates of the party are Ranjit Singh Brahampura from Khadoor Sahib, Prem Singh Chandumajra from Anandpur Sahib, Pawan Tinoo from Jalandhar and Kulwant Singh from Fatehgarh Sahib.

NEW DELHI: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's love story 'Goliyon Ki Rasleela: Ram-Leela', which released nationwide today, faced protests in Indore, Rajkot, Jalandhar and the capital regarding its title and content. Some members of an NGO held a protest in the capital outside a theatre over the Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh starrer film, demanding a change in its title. People raised slogans against the movie and the protests ended when police arrived on the scene and whisked away the demonstrators to the nearest police station.

NEW DELHI: After Delhi, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) supplies to automobiles and piped cooking gas for households will commence in Jalandhar in the next 18 months. Jalandhar will be the first city in Punjab to get CNG, an environment friendly fuel that is considered cheaper than diesel. "We will start operations in 12-18 months," said an official of Jay Madhok Energy Pvt Ltd, which has won the licence to sell CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas in Jalandhar. City-based Jay Madhok Energy had outbid state-owned GAIL Gas, Oil and Natural Gas Corp ( ONGC )

HYDERABAD: Infrastructure major IVRCL plans to sell some more assets as part of its second round of debt-reduction exercise, a senior company official said here on Thursday. "We will put up projects like Jalandhar-Amritsar National Highway project in Punjab and Chennai Desalination Plant for sale," IVRCL Chairman E Sudhir Reddy said, adding that some development is expected on this front in next nine months. "Three parties have been showing interest in the desalination plant, but numbers are yet to come from them.

JALANDHAR: Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda, arrested three days back from the Indo-Nepal border, is suspected to be involved in the 1997 Jalandhar blasts also, the Government Railway Police (GRP) has said. On March 14, 1997, a powerful bomb blast at the parking lot of Jalandhar railway station had killed seven persons and injured 13 others. GRP Station House Officer Bant Singh said officials are going through various documents related to the probe into the blast. "If we find any indication of Tunda's involvement in the blasts, we will start the process of bringing him to Jalandhar through production warrant ," Singh said.

NEW DELHI: The road transport ministry is approaching Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth for help in securing land for a dozen major highway projects from one of the country's largest land owners, the defence ministry. The four-laning and six-laning of over 1,000 kilometres of highways are stalled as the defence establishment, which controls over 17 lakh acres, follows a rigid system where it only yields land parcels in exchange for similar land plots. Defence land transfers are pending in many of these projects for multiple years.

CHANDIGARH: The Karnal police have initiated a probe into a land fraud case. In this five-year-old case, a fraudulent deal, involving 5.5-acre land worth more than Rs 6.8 crore, was struck on the basis of a forged general power of attorney (GPA) registered in Jalandhar, Punjab. According to media reports, Karnal deputy commissioner Renu Phulia has already directed the police to take action against the accused in whose favour sale deeds had been registered on the basis of the forged GPA. The police have got issued non-bailable warrants against the accused Ram Niwas Jindal, Sandeep Somany, Rajender Kumar Somani, Raj Kumar and others, all residents of Delhi, while a Karnal court dismissed the anticipatory bail of Jindal a few days ago, the reports said.

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will soon approach Public Private Partnership Approval Committee (PPPAC) to re-start work on the six-laning of the Panipat-Jalandhar road on National Highway 1. The project which started in 2009 got delayed due to numerous reasons including land acquisition problem, delay in approval of design by Railways and relocation of the toll plaza. "It will go to PPPAC and there it would be decided how to go about with the project," a Road Ministry official told PTI. At present, the Karnal stretch of the project is completely stuck.

JALANDHAR: Anti-corruption crusader and social activist Anna Hazare will address a rally here tomorrow during his 'Janatantra Yatra' in Punjab. Hazare will address eight public rallies during his five-day visit to the state, Janatantra Morcha member I S Bhalla said. Hazare would start first phase of his yatra from Amritsar after paying obeisance at Durgiana Mandir, Harmandir Saheb and Ramtirath temple. He will address public rally at the Jallianwalan Bagh tomorrow 31 followed by two more public rallies at Kapurthala and Jalandhar on the same day, Bhalla said.

JALANDHAR: Over 150 exhibitors from Pakistan would put up 40 stalls consisting of Pakistani food, textiles, and leather, among others, at the Indo-Pak International Trade Expo, IPEX-13, starting tomorrow here, organisers said. PHD Chamber Regional Director Dalip Sharma and Khursheed Barlas from The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce & Industry in a joint press conferene here said over 150 exhibitors from Pakistan would put up 40 stalls consisting of Pakistani food, textiles, leather, Kabuli dry fruits, home appliances crockery, furniture etc. Sharm said such expos would help in promoting bilateral trade among the two neighbouring countries.